There were SO MANY birds in our yard this morning! I heard them chirping, and then something snuffling round the front door, so I peeked out at the feeder, and there were dozens of them!

sparrows
juncos (the gallows birds)
flick[e]rs! (nosing around the door)
a blue jay
robins
starlings
finches (? they were reddish)
a nuthatch (I think ( Read more... )

Slideshow

The craftsmen

Underwater sculpture garden-cum-reef.

Floating eggs, Levitating Buddha

I saw a meteor last night :) The biggest I've ever seen.

The NASA color key says it was a ball of magnesium.

Very pretty blue and green.

[My current Favorite Thing On Teh Internets.]

I just found out by sheer luck that this wonder of gorgeous engineering is the Milwaukee Art Museum. But it gets better: sure, it's a gorgeous building. But you see the wings of the "bird"? Those flap. The building flaps its wings. Steel wings. Longer than those of a 747.

Excuse me a moment...

ok.

More info:
The museum's website about ( Read more... )

Neat! Europe's new Mars satellite took a picture of one of the Mars rovers!

Rare earth magnets as jewelry - the jewels are the connectors are the jewels...

Guerrilla lamppole sweaters.